Lander September 15, 2019

The Curiosity rover, NASA's pickup truck sized robot on the Red Planet, has been poking around our closest neighbor's surface since it's arrival in August of 2012. The robot was tasked with a specific set of mission objectives: assess the climate and… [Read more…]

The Curiosity rover, NASA's pickup truck sized robot on the Red Planet, has been poking around our closest neighbor's surface since it's arrival in August of 2012. The robot was tasked with a specific set of mission objectives: assess the climate and geology of the Gale Crater that it landed in. Its purpose is perhaps the most noble of all outbound space craft: the search for … [Read more…]

For the first time since the Cold War, public interest is once again shifting toward space. But this time, it isn't a looming competition between two super powers that's caught our attention. A complex web of national efforts, corporate programs, and increasingly, military assets streak across the sky above our heads, pushing the boundaries of orbital norms and reaching further … [Read more…]

Per Lockheed Martin's press release:
Lockheed Martin's concept for a crewed lunar lander is a single stage, fully reusable system that incorporates many of Orion’s flight-proven technologies and systems. The lander would accommodate a crew of four and 2000 lbs. of payload on the surface for up to two weeks while returning to the Gateway without maintenance or refueling on the … [Read more…]

"Wind River" is a film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, who also wrote "Hell or High Water" and the first installment of "Sicario." It stars Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene and Jon Bernthal, all of whom deliver excellent performances.
The story opens as a tracker for the Fish and Wildlife Service, Cory Lambert played by Renner, discovers the body of a … [Read more…]

SpaceX's launch of the Falcon Heavy on Tuesday has been hailed by many as a significant step forward for the private space flight industry. With it's massive 64 ton payload capacity for low earth orbit flights, and the ability to allocate some of that storage to fuel for deep space flights the human race hasn't been doing since the end of NASA's Apollo missions, the successful … [Read more…]

On December 11th, 1972, the Apollo 17 capsule touched down in the Taurus-Littrow highlands of the moon’s surface. Eugene Cernan, a Navy pilot and the mission commander, and Harrison Schmitt, the first scientist-astronaut to land on the moon, spent the following three days on its rocky surface conducting geological surveys and seismic experiments. On December 14th, the two men … [Read more…]